Bel Air Classiques
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Special offer. Weill, K: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Sung in English
Jane Henschel (Leocadia Begbick), Donald Kaasch (Fatty the Bookkeeper), Willard White (Trinity Moses), Measha Brueggergosman (Jenny Smith), Michael König (Jim Maclntyre)
Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Pablo Heras-Casado
Brueggergosman's Jenny is stunning to behold...[Henschel] has precisely the right dramatic-mezzo instrument for this role, and she can sing sensuously when required...[Easterlin] offers tone... —
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Opera, December 2011, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Berg: Wozzeck
Georg Nigl (Wozzeck), Mardi Byers (Marie), Maxim Paster (Captain), Pyotr Migunov (Doctor) & Roman Muravitsky (Drum-major)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, Teodor Currentzis
there's little doubt that much credit for this significant revival must be given to Teodor Currentzis, whose committed conducting inspires the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra to deliver an urgent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Bernstein: Wonderful Town
Jasmine Roy (Ruth Sherwood), Rafaëlle Cohen (Eileen Sherwood), Dalia Constantin (Helen), Lauren Van Kempen (Violet), Alyssa Landry (Mrs Wade), Maxime De Toledo (Robert Baker), Thomas Boutilier (Wreck) & Franck Lopez (Lonigan)
Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opera de Toulon, Larry Blank (conductor)...
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Rosemary Joshua (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Pietro Spagnoli (Count), Annette Dasch (Countess), Angelika Kirchschlager (Cherubino), Concerto Köln & Choeur du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, René Jacobs
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The Children of the Beijing Opera
One minute on stage, ten years of training. A film by Don Kent & Christian Dumais-Lvowski
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Special offer. Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Heidi Grant Murphy (Adina), Ambrogio Maestri (Dulcamara), Laurent Naouri (Belcore, Paul Groves (Nemorino) & Aleksandra Zamojska (Giannetta)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra de Paris, Edward Gardner
…Laurent Pelly's staging is efficient and both narrative and characterisation are ably charted. The best performance comes from conductor Edward Gardner, who cuts a spirited dash through the... —
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Special offer. Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Roberto Alagna (Orphée), Serena Gamberoni (Eurydice) & Marc Barrard (L'Amour)
Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra, Giampaolo Bisanti
The first of several fade-cuts… takes us to the scene of a car crash, where paramedics pull Eurydice's body from the wreckage. Thence to the graveyard, whence all that follows is Orphée's dream.... —
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